Is rEfind so difficult to install?

[Graham Sawyer]

I have followed the instruction on (https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#linux) to install on Ubuntu mate 20.04 LTS but rEFind does not show when booting. Tried a few diagnostics to no avail. Output of df -h --local | grep /boot shows /dev/sda1 511M 1.9M 510M 1% /boot/efi and df /boot/efi shows Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 523248 1880 521368 1% /boot/efi

Any advise is welcome
Also new on here and not sure if pasting those outputs is best practice? Again, any advise is welcome

[netsurfer38]

I successfully installed rEFind on a Dell XPS 13 Dual Boot (Windows 10 & Ubuntu) as follows - hope that it may work for you (much of it based on the rodsbooks.com install guides)

Open a Terminal window and type the following commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install refind

You'll be asked whether to install rEFInd to the ESP when you first install it. Thereafter, the rEFInd version will update along with your other software. This package is built with GNU-EFI and is not signed with a Secure Boot key; however, the install script should sign the binary with a locally-generated key if it detects that your system uses Secure Boot. Thus, if you've previously installed one of my binaries on a Secure Boot system and added its key as a MOK, you'll have to add your local key when you reboot.

I got it to work using Ubuntu. I installed rEFInd, then on my first boot after installing it, it will ask if you want to launch MOK management. You say yes, then select the option about installing/registering a key, then browse to \EFI\refind\keys and select refind_local.cer after that, select reboot and it'll boot to rEFInd.